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THIS BACKGROUND to Andrew Levison's The Working Class Majority helps explain both the strengths and weaknesses of the book. Most important, Levison is decisive on a central matter: is the present-day working class potentially revolutionary or only potentially liberal? Ultimately, Levison says liberal in the short run and perhaps socialist and revolutionary in the long run. This point is significant, because Levison is a McGovern liberal, and through the book's serialization in The New Yorker it might come to have high currency among the middle-class Left. As a whole. Levison attempts to provide the basis...
...Levison sees revolutionary possibilities in American workers--he does not fall into a moronic "classless society" argument. For Levison, workers are a progressive force in the present, capable of fighting for redistributive taxation, a full employment economy, national health reform, representation in the workplace and workers' control. All of these issues are part of working-class self-interest, and Levison sees the potential to go beyond this advanced welfare-state liberalism...
...University should install a fire system that works, before things get out of hand. We share the feelings of Kenneth H. Levison, senior tutor in Lowell. "I would think that the administration would come up with a system that would function when there's a fire," he said. "We're very lucky that nobody was killed...
...addition to the gratings on those windows facing the street, Levison said, "some have been painted shut and haven't been fixed...
...Levison said neither he nor Zeph Stewart, master of Lowell House, were notified that a fire was in progress. "There is something wrong with the priority of who was contacted," Levison said, adding that he awoke because he heard noise in the courtyard...